The 1343 agreement for the naval league stipulated a force of twenty galleys: six each from Venice and the Knights Hospitaller, and four each from the Papal States and the Kingdom of Cyprus.

[2] However, according to the archives of the Venetian Senate, for the first half of 1347, Venice armed only five galleys for participation in the league.

[1] Around the end of April, the Crusader fleet met the Turks off the island of Imbros in the northeastern Aegean.

[5] Taken by surprise, the Turks abandoned their ships and landed on the island, but they were surrounded by the Crusaders, who sent for reinforcements to the Hospitallers headquarters on Rhodes.

The Hospitallers sent two galleys and one lighter vessel, as well as troops and cavalry, which proved crucial in the ensuing land engagement, in which most of the Turks were captured and enslaved.